The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-12-29

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made her ocroo
"rvs nads way Win ny ySsw.r susd II
Il With ~. There's sentence a dsall
agin me; 'Hstsd ID b well hid."
'''I ssrvsd thrss yoass In The jua end ~ Il
aArA and misllsd. Ivs . tssot 10 kill-to -
blood run. It's pooty."
The supsrstition came 10 Hst&y that thiI
was hef appointed hour The rcd poftsnt W.
vsry close.
Al she sassd down ftom the rock In III.
congealmsnt Of horror, her dght was ar
rested BY somsthine nj coming along thS
mountain path nom the neighbor1ng noun.
tain gap.
A,man Appeared in the uniform Of sou.
ave-bright scarlet cap, scarlet jacket and
scarlet breechss. al relieved upon Logging
and sword-belt Of white
He wss wounded, and limped upon Z
crutch rudely Whitfield in the wood. Hia
white CATERS were splashed with his own
blood, which he'd also stained one Of bid
sleeves - Il issued from his arm.
As he painfully, slowly, moved onward,
Hetty Arnold felt fascination for the bright
red apparel Of this man which partly made
her forget her imminent peril from the oon-
fessed murderen below.
She knew this wounded man could not
rescue her; but his scarlet garments awoke
an instinct Of delight amidst her tsrrors,
liksthe oft-quoted fascination Of the charmed
bird for the serpent's eye.
,sWhile she sased thsrs came . whisper
1lpN heneakhs -. es5ls
-;"He's got aswAtoh 7, =, 4ss.
!YAnd diamondp
"No doubt pursel'
"Have at him, trip him and stab himi r.
Like the rushing Of wild beasts, or the
flight of mountain pheasants, the convicts
leaped out, bore the xouave officer TO the
ground and rided his pockets and shirt
bosom.
The knife was raised above his throat to
shed his blood, when Hetty with frantic
strength tore . stone from the ledge
where she stood, and flung II upon the
back Of the STOPPING rufi3an with the knife,
crying:
Don't murder that man. He il rsdr'
One rufiian cried out with pain and the
other with panic, and leaving the woman
they came to pollute and TO kill they fed up
the mountain and out of sight.
Hetty threw herself down by the fallen
I'm. He was unconscious.
"You cannot del" she cried; ''you must
live, because you are nd and I was made for
youp'
The souave opened his eyes and looked
into Hetty's with both pain and pleasure on
his face, and finally spoke:
20, bella fsntnai Che sara, saroi do
not die, and 90 must love you"
Leaning upon her strong frame, his arm
around her shoulder, the stranger, fainting
twice with pain, made his way to Hetty's
house in the mellow September weather and
lay upon her bed; passing surgeon came
in and amputated his arm. He had fallen
from wall Of rock in scaling the heights at
Brampton's gap, and piece Of sandstone
falling with him had entombed him In .
pit where his weakness prevented his cries
being heard until some days after the battle
snegro came that way to take firewood and
pulled him out.
He was easily seem to be an Ita1ian-a
handsome person Of brown hair and hazel
eyts, with delicacy and seriousness giving
him the tone Of perfect respect for the wo-
man who had given him life, lodginu and
love.
As for love, that was understood from the
moment of his rescue. Hstty frankly
said she had merely awaited him and he
accepted her sense Of destiny - including
his own.
my hand Is gone" he said In broken
Italian; what matter, since there IL one
hand LETT cannot fight and have quilted
home forever. 80 here will till your little
patch, and the mountain u full Of chestnuts
a. in Italy, and my pay IL still due me q one
Of the Garibaldi legion in Americs. We
shall have no past, no future, no sxplaua-
tionS, no intentions."
They married, according to her selection
Of priest and form, at tho little brick Episco-
pal church on . ndghboring knoll, the
schoolmaster being the ono invited guest.
They settled down amidst the war to tran
quill wedlock that was like friendship, with
out tasks or obligations.
AL the neighbos knew that Hetty Red
Shoes had married an "I-talian, aone- armed
feller," and one bad boy stopped opposite
the cottage and initiated grinding . hand
organ, to 30 the effect. Jovan, that being
the bridegroom's nams merely called Hetty
out to go what the boy was doing, and
laughed immoderately; and the boy sus.
pected that they were taking him for the
monkey Of the show, which he had failed to
provide for. 70 he sulked OF mad with his
own pleasantry.
The monkey came q last in the shape Of
. son to Jovan and Hetty Rospigliod;
child = healthy q the air Of the hills and q
y the blending Of races can eject
contrasts; brunette boy with light blue
eyes. His father looked at him with IN *
preston Of pride that avoks the Arst. Of
Hstty's apprshensions. She did not expect
70 ind her husband lower than he seemed,
but far too high.
"Jovan, there b mot the humility OF roor
man In your love for this child; you look q
me With kindnsss. but atom boy With some
thing heros Ike psids."
HE b . prince Of Rome" said the hus-
band. HE may hveto wear rcd hat"
The meaning Of this remark YVES obscure
10 the wife, but at the ominous word rsd,
Ihe felt pressntimsnt, unselhsh = the arm
Of fate:
1T came rsd-it vim 70 ssd. Thank God
for the hspPlnM alrsedy permitted me-.
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